Strawberry Sunscreen

Strawberry Sunscreen

Originally I thought I would choose an album to try to illustrate, but after some thinking I settled for a song instead. I ended up choosing the song ‘Strawberry Sunscreen’ by ‘LostBoyCrow’ as my reference since it’s a personal favorite. I like feel good music. :)

There’s a popular app amongst illustrators that work as 3D model referencing. That was used as the base of the drawing.
I prefer digital illustrations so I also used an app for this. Below are the names of both apps.

- MagicPoser (For angle and lighting reference.)
- Procreate (For the illustration.)

Honestly, most of the time I just sketch whatever comes to mind first and just go with that. In this case, I already had in mind what I wanted so I went straight to the ‘MagicPoser’ app and got to work on arranging the model in the pose and angle I wanted.

I could now do the sketch. The model I used was male so I had to alter some proportions to what I wanted which was female. After adding a few other details, I had my sketch.

I started off by changing the canvas color and adding the clouds from the sketch. This became my background.

Basing myself off of my sketch, I drew the line art and followed up with my base colors.

Next, I added some color to the skin such as blush and lipstick, and filled in what would be glass and plastic on the glasses and jar. The last two were done on a different layer under “hard light”.

Once that was done I could add the lighting.

And of course the song title in front.

And finally, I wanted a grainy finish so I added a noise effect.

For some reason I think of the beach whenever I hear this song, although it doesn’t really have anything to do with it. Still, I wanted it to give that vibe so I chose the color scheme and theme accordingly. I feel content with the final project so I hope others like it too. Thank you. :)